The Peoples' Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, March 19, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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THE PEOPLES
VOLUMK 17.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1909.
. NUMBER 36
Guthrie, Okla., March 17.—The
concensus of opinion here relative
(o the work of the legi lative ses-iifflii
just closed js th ' there was a big
work ti)/ and that the legislators
arose to i.ie occasion.
A :'cw politic'ans, more interest-
ed in party success than in the ma-
V Vial development of th • state, are
Kindly critic: ing what they term a
moneyed mad legislature, but the
busines men who realize that busi-
nes methods must be used in state
building the shme as in other en-
terprises, are upholding the law
makers.
The total appropriation for the
coining two years and for the deli
ciency of last year, will be over $6,-
000,000. 1 his is less than was the
appropriation made by the legisla-
ture of the state of Kansas in their
session that has just closed and
comparing the needs of the two
states, reveals the fact that Okla-
homa has been much more economi-
cal than Kansas.
A few weeks ago, we had hun-
dreds of prisoners thrown upon our
hands by the refusal of the state of
Kansas to care for them longer. Shall
we confine and work them, or turn
them loose upon our citizenship?
This is one question that is not two
sided, hence a big appropriation to
build a penitentiary at McAlester
and a reformatory at Granite.
Shall Oklahoma give the people
the advantage of higher education?
Another question that has but one
answer. The best educational facili-
ties are none too good for Oklaho-
ma, hence large appropriations for
the University at Norman, the A.. &
M. college at Stillwater, the state
normals at Alva, Weatherford and
Edmond, and for the new education-
al and charitable institutions at Du-
rant, tahlequah. Via, Vinita, Clare-
more, Pains Valley, Chickasha, Sul-
phur; i-'ort ttibson 'and Taft.
At each of these places new build-
ings must be erected, and as we arc
not merely building for tomorrow
the law makers made .adequate ap-
propriations for substantial build-
ings. The negroes were taken care
were given an
of at Langston, and
orphans home at Taft. The legisla-
tors were made of the same materi-
al as the men who are building the
cities of our state. They were state
builders and did not stop for par-
I tisan criticism, and yet, with provis-
j ions for all of the above and several
| other buildings not mentioned, the
I Oklahoma appropriations were less
than Kqnsas. •
•There is considerable speculation
is to what the gubernatorial prun-
[ ing knife will do for the appropria-
tions as tile constitution gives the
;i<>\ crnor the power to veto or cut
''in separate items without vetoing
j the whole bill.
TO WED SOON.
Guthrie, Okla. March 17.—(Spl.)
The marriage of Viss Fiance Has-
•■<'1. daughter of Gov. rlaskell, and
Leslie G. Nibla k, a Guthrie news-
paper man, will take place March 31
ii. the private office of the governor,
;.C(.-itd'ng to intimate fret.ds >f the
couple. The ceremony wilt be saM
in the presence of a small party >f
a-'quiintances.
I he bridal couple, it is ami .unced,
will tour the south, probably includ-
ing Cuba in the itinerary. A few
weeks later they will be at home in
Guthrie.
I he present plans of' the couple
differ from those previously accept
ed as authoriative by their friends
here. It was reported the wedding
would be a military affair, celebrated
at the new convention hall
An exchange observes that a boy
can sit on a sled six inches square
' lied to a sled moving nine miles an
. hour, but can t sit on a sofa five min-
ute^ for a dollar. A man can sit on an
inch board aiu^ talk polities for three
ill,ill's, but put him into $ comfort
I able church pew for 40 minutes and
lie gets nervous, twists and goes to
sleep. \ man can pouch his clothes
with tobacco and tile juice running
jdown. hjs chin feels good; but a hair
in the butter simply knocks him out
completely.
The
Portsmouth
MODEL
MAN CHARGED WITH BIGAMY
IN CONNECTION WITH HIS
MARRIAGE TO MABEL
FREELAND REACHED
OKLAHOMA CITY
YESTERDAY.—IS
STILL SICK.
Kilaby is back in Oklahoma; arriv-
ed at Oklahoma City yesterday. Mrs.
Dickson, who is Mrs. Kilaby s (N,,.
2) mother, and Mrs. Kilaby herself,
went up to Oklahoma City tiiis
morning. The following frcn. the
Oklahoma News tells of his arrival
at the metropolis yesterday:
Inquiring first for his wife whose
sister tiled bigamy charges against
him, W. II. Kilaby immediate)
taken to a room at tile Alta hotel,
Broadway and California, upon his
arrival here Tuesday morning. Kila-
by' is in a precarious condition, suf-
fering from hemorrhage of the lungs.
His wife has geen notified and wiil
come at once. She was formerly Miss
Mabel Frecland and lives at Worrnan.
Deputy Jake Armstrong, who
two weeks ago went after Kilaby,
had no trouble with his prisoner.
Kilaby, however, was so ill that he
required constant attention the en-
tire trip.
I'm here, and will have friends
here in a few days," Kilaby says.
"This tiling will come out right."
When Armstrong reached El Paso
he found his prisoner ill in a hos-
pital and unable t' be moved, lie
waited several days and did not start
until assured after a careful examina-
tion by a physician that it was safe
to make the long trip.
Kilaby had arranged to file habeas
corpus procedings. Armstrong warn-
ed him that it would be a hard fight
and Kilaby finally capitulated, after
eliciting the promise that he would
be treated right.
I'd never have come except for
Armstrong," said Kilaby Tuesday.
His hemorrhage is caused from ,i
wound received while a soldier in
the Spanish-American war, when he
was shot through one lung.
I here has been much said in out
of town papers concerning the action
Mrs. Kilaby (\'o. 2) will take against
her "millionaire" husband. But the
real facts are that it is all "hot air."
Mrs Kilaby is non-conimital in the
matter and her future plans arc all
unknown.
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL
SURVEY SENDS OUT FIN-
ISHED RESULT OF SEV-
ERAL YEARS LABORS.
GIVES INTERESTING
DRAINAGE DATA
FOR THIS AND
NEAR-BY
Guthrie, Okla., March 17.—The
state board of agriculture lias rcceiv
ed from the United States geological
survey the last two maps of the
topographic survey made in 1906-7
under the co-operation of the feder-
al government and the territory , f
Oklahoma. The maps just received
are of the Shawnee and Maud quad
rangles, covering most of Potta
watomie and part of Seminole conn
ty. I lie maps are very complete in
their details, showing the contour
and elevation of the land, all streams
and other natural landmarks, roads
and houses, as < well as railroads,
towns and the usual features of such
map.
The Oklahoma survey, the field
work for which was completed just
fore statehood, covered a quad-
rangular district including practically
all of Pottawatomie county, the
south half of Cleveland and parts
of Oklahoma, Cleveland and Semi-
nole counties. This district was chos-
en because of its great need for drain
age work, especially in the Deep
Fork valley, and the great value such
survey would have in connection
with that work. The Oklahoma leg-
islature of 1905 appropriated $5,(Kit)
a year for the biennium to assist in
carrying on the work, the territory's
part of which was placed in charge
of a board composed of the govern-
or. attorney general and secretary of
the board of agriculture.
The plan of the United States geo-
logical survey is to continue this
work until a topographic map of the
wholj Lnited States has been made.
Aboift 3-10 of the country has been
covered so far. '1 he only other sur-
vey made in Oklahoma aside from
the Lincoln-Pottawatomie countv
was in Oklahoma county.
Vinita, Okla., March 15.—(Spl.)
i barges of a sensational nature
against Sylvester R. Rush, govern-
ment prosecutor, are contained in
the motion filed in the l nited States
court here Monday, to quash the in-
dictments against Governor Haskell
and the six other defendants in the
Muskogee townsite fraud cases.
1 he motion was not argued when
the case was called by Judge Ralph
C ampbell Monday morning. Judge
Campbell declined to preside, on the
ground that bis association with the
defendants might be unfavorably con-
strued.
I he motions to quash w ill be argu-
ed at Tulsa the nrst Monday in April.
Rush, who conducted the investi-
gation into the townsite charges be-
fore a federal grand jury in Musko-
gee when the indictments were re-
turned, is accused of suppressing u ■
timony, denying the request of tile
jurors to summon witnesses and gen-
eral unprofessional conduct. He is
said to have put on the stand R. A.
I aylor and E. i!. Lennon, officials of
the interior department and permit-
ted them to make statements damag-
ing to the defense without any actual
knowledge of the case and allowing
them to draw their own conclusions,
in violation of legal ethics. He is
charged with declining to summon J.
Llair Shoenfelt, ex-Indian agent,"
when requested to by the jury.
Squelched by Story.
any further questions There was
none.
The story, states the motion, illus-
trated to the jury Ku-li's point and
no further questions were put by the
jurors.
Two Judges Refuse.
,lu.lee Pollock of Kansas and an-
other member of ti., federal judiciary
appealed to by judge Campbell, have
refused to preside in the easel It is
Stated now that a jurist from Iowa
will preside, although this has not
been definitely settled, A request to
that effect has been filed.
I Governor Haskell and the other
lendants, with one exception, were
here when the case was called. The
co (i, fendants of the governor are C.
W. Turner, W. R. Eatoi , F. E. GUI,
W. i. Hutchings, 1*. W. Severs and
A. English. English is seriously
>11 in t alifornia and was represented
bj his attorney. I Ik- defendants were
not formally araigned.
In the motion to quash J. Geo.
W nght, commissioner to the five
civilized tribes, is charged with hav-
ing approved the method of schedul-
ing lots used by the.'lefendants.
FIRE DEPARTMENT CALLED
OUT.
The fire department was called out
W ednesday afternoon by a lire i:i
Max Fischer's yard which threaten
ed damage; but lire was put out bt
fore damage resulted.
Rush, according to the defendant's
motion, put a damper on the eager-
ness of the jurors to get into the
meat of the case by telling them the
story of an Irishman before a politi-
cal convention. The narration was
volunteered after Rush, it is said, re-
fused to allow a witness to aiiswei*
a question asked by one of the jur-
ors. I his is tjie story credited to the
pro i cutor by the defendants' attor-
neys:
An Irishman at a convention rose
in his seat to ask a question. Some
one objecting to the interruption
suddenly knocked him senseless. The '
i h.iirman of the convention immedi-
ately desired to know if there were!
LOCATED SEVENTEEN
STATE INSTITUTIONS.
Guthrie, Okla., March ^.—-Seven-
teen state institutions were located
by the legislature that just closed.
' hey are normal schools at Durant,
ula, and Tahlequah; the reform
-chool between Pauls Valley and
Wynnewood; the penitentiary at Mc-
Alester and branch penitentiary at
Granite; the third, fourth and fifth
distpct and Panhandle Agricultural
schools; the University Preparatory
at C laremore; the d- ,f school at Sul-
phur; the insane . ,-Ju > ,->■ Vinita:
the feebleminded institute-at Enid;
the blind school at Fort Gibson, tile
1 'iris' Industrial .school at Chickasha,
tile negro orphan home at Taft.
I'ulsa, Nowata and Guthrie lost
the girls' orphan home, the technical
school and tin- slate n--.cite homes
respectively.'
MOTHER, IN ATTEMPT TO
RESCUE CHILD, HAS OWN
CLOTHING CATCH FIRE
AND THOUGH SHE
SUCCEEDS IN SAV-
ING LIFE OF THE
CHILD SHE LOSES
HER OWN.
Tuesday afternoon while burning
trash in the yard ;t home near Frank
'in, the clothing of the three year
old child of Mrs. Hiram Marble
IS IT UNLAWFUL FOR A PER-
SON TO PURCHASE WHIS-
KEY FROM OUTSIDE THE
STATE AND CARRY IT
TO PARTIES OTHER
THAN IMMEDIATE
MEMBERS OF HIS
OWN FAMILY?
Guthrie, Okla., March 17—(Spl.)
An entii .' - new point bearing on the
enforcement of the state prohibition
law was argued in the court of crim-
. r , , . m«.- mini <>i crini
caught fire and the mother rjshed to J inal appeals Tuesday by Enforce-
tlie rescie of the child, succeeding in j nient \ttomcy 1 red Caldwell—
doing so ; but her own clothing J whether a, man who buys Hquor out
Pnilfrllt tirr> n-wl ,1-... .... i if -i . •
FAD CLOTHES
Distinguish a man. I hey cover up his
poor points. They emphasize the strong
points of his figure and they throw an ap-
pearance of unsteadied grace all over
him- VVe are showing a variety of styles
and patterns of FAD CLOTHES RANGING
IN PRICE FROM $20 to jjg
We also show a swell line of Kuppen-
heiiner's and Mlcheal Stern New Spring
styles. We are headquarters for men's
knobby shoes.
caught lire and she was so badly
burned herself that death resulted
at II o'clock Tuesday night. Mrs.
Marble was the c'aughter of Ziba
Belden of this city and known well
to the old settlers in Norman, she
having grown to womanhoo 1 in this
city. She le yes a husband and a
child aged three years and a babe
babe aged eight months to mourn
her untimely derth. The funeral ser-
vices were held Wedne day after-
noon and the body laid to re in
the I. O. O. F. cemetery.
The question has been raised and
is now the subject or debrte in Nor-
man, "As to whether it is the 'digni-
ty of ,thc office, or the 'salary' at-
tached, is the greater inducement to
get men to accept the office?" We
have observed however, that those
who put great strain on the 'dignity'
also are mindful of reminding you
that the salary is important to main-
tain the dignity of the office.
side the state for a per .on not ..
member of his family may be leg .1-
ly intercepted with the purchase.
I he point came i*j> in the appeal
of the Snanp vs. the state from Love
county. Sr >p was arrested while,
according to tile complaint of the
state, he was conveying liquor
bought in Gainesville, Texas, to the
home of a neighbor.
In the Schwedes case tin supreme
court held that a person could not
be intercepted whil taking liquor
outside the state to his home, De-
cision was reversed, however, oi) tile
point conditioned on the destina-
tion of the liquor to any one outside
the family of the purchaser.
There are 50 liquor appeals docket
ed and the court is hearing them at
the rate of about five a day.
The "Sturgis
One Motion Collapsible
CARRIAGES
V"
rnwm -
Open
Closed
On complaint of Township Trus-
tee Marooney of Liberty township,
Deputy Sheriff Abbott arrested
ILirvc \\ atterson ^Tuesday afternoon
charged with being drunk and dis-
turbing tlii- peae . Mr. Watterson
!T„in W|'d"CS<'ay '"1(i entered a! Carl Giles was a business t I vi-i
Plea ol guilty and was fined $10.00 tor to Purcell Tuesday after
and costs by Judge Sharp. 'noolVs ,rain. SU"y aUer
SKIPS OUT WITH THE CASH.
John B. ( ampbell, assistant cash-
ier of the First National Bank of
Comanche, Oklahoma, taking ad-
vantage of the absence of the cash-
ier and president, who were ; t Fort
\\ orth, helped himself to some $6,-
000 of the bank funds threw the
time lock on the safe fct twenty I
hours and took the train north leav-
ing a note that lie was drunk.
Points to note about our
Collapsible CARRIAGE
Simplicity,
Comforts,
Quality,
Appearance,
Variety.
A beautiful line all Styles.
Prices from
$3.50 to $18.50.
CALL AND SEE
MEYER, MEYER & MORRIS,
"3 he House Furnishers."
Uay Phone 67; Night Phone 242. Norman, Oklahoma
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Allan, John S. The Peoples' Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, March 19, 1909, newspaper, March 19, 1909; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc118247/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.